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MAGNOLIA 
The Cape Pond Ice company fin- 
ished cutting ice at the Magnolia 
pond Sunday. The company is now 
at work at Alton, N. H., and among 
the Magnolia men employed there 
are Raymond Symonds, Ashby Por- 
ter and Ralph Richardson. 
Mrs. Patrick MeTighe and chil- 
dren have gone to Buffalo to join 
Mr. MeTighe, who is employed in a 
hotel there. 
Mrs. Jabeth Dunbar returned 
from Salem the first of the week 
after a visit to her daughter, Mrs. 
Samuel Brown. Mrs. Brown’s 
friends here will be pleased to 
known that she is recovering from 
her serious illness. 
William E. Hunt returned from 
Pawtucket, R. l., Monday afternoon. 
Mr. Hunt was a delegate from Glou- 
cester to the Y. M. C. A. conference 
at Pawtucket and lke the other 
delegates, has returned filled with 
fresh enthusiasm for the Y. M. C. A. 
work. 
Miss Ella Commerford entertained 
her friend, Miss Esther Paul of 
Gloucester, over the holiday. 
Mrs. D. C. Ballou had as her 
guests at her home on Magnolia 
avenue over the week-end and the 
holiday, Miss Gertrude Smith and 
Miss Margaret Fitzgerald, of Boston. 
John Chane, Jr., of Boston was 
home over the holiday. 
Miss Nona Blackwell of Boston 
was in town over the holiday as the 
guest of Miss Susie Symonds. 
Mrs. Edith Stromblad and Miss 
Anna Stromblad, and Miss Charlotte 
Huskie of Boston were here over the 
holiday visiting friends. They are 
all planning to spend the summer 
in Magnolia as usual. 
Mrs. E. Haring Dickinson of Fitch- 
burg was the guest of her mother, 
Mrs. John B. Knowlton, last Satur- 
day. 
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter 
Scott, Englewood Road, a son, Feb. 
21. 
L. F. Hunt and Leon Foster at- 
tended a Masonic observance of 
Washington’s Birthday at Wake- 
field the 22d. 
At least 25 per cent of the larch 
timber over large areas in eastern 
Oregon has been killed or weaken- 
ed by mistletoe, and the forest ser- 
vice is taking steps to combat the 
pest. 
Never marry a girl for her money. 
The old man who controls it may 
outlive you. 
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First Class Groceries and Kitchen 
Furnishings 
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Avenue, Magnolia 
Telephone 63-2 
LAFAYETTE HUNT, Proprietor, 
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DEERFOOT FARM CREAM AND BUTTER. ORDERS TAKEN AND DE- 
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SUMMBE ST. 
MAGNOLIA 
PANAMA CANAL 
Subject of Illustrated Lecture at 
Magnolia Church. 
Statistics and other information 
about the Panama Canal were given 
at the Village church, Magnolia, 
Sunday evening in a paper, written 
by Rev. Peter MacQueen, and read 
by the Rev. Dr. Walter S. Eaton. 
The address was accompanied by 
illustrations, which showed not only 
the process of construction, but also 
types of settlers and workers on the 
isthmus in the old days and in the 
present period. The lecture in- 
cluded information about the early 
discoverers, Columbus and Balboa 
and about the ships in which they 
sailed. Columbus’ boats were about 
as large as the life boats on the 
modern ocean liners and steamships 
500 times as large have since passed 
through the Canal, which is the ful- 
fillment of the great explorer’s 
dreams of a western passage to the 
Indies. 
The photographs, which Mr. Mae- 
@ueen took on his trip to Panama 
last year afforded an _ excellent 
study of types of workmen. The 
Spaniards, while not the most. at- 
tractive or picturesque of the work- 
ers, have furnished about 60% of 
the brawn required for the con- 
struction of the canal. The most 
picturesque of the workmen have 
been the Martiniquan negroes, 
whose costumes and attractive little 
homes on the edge of the jungle 
Magnolia, Massachusetts. 
MAGNOLIA MARKET 
Also Hunt’s Market, 172 Prospect Street, Cambridge. 
seem a transplanted part of their 
native island. The American work- 
ers and their home conditions are, 
of course, most interesting to New 
Englanders. All have quarters il- 
lustrative of what cleanliness and 
sanitary conditions can do to make 
homes lvable in the tropies. The 
little white cottages in the colonies 
of the American workmen are at- 
tractive and comfortable, the bache- 
lors having convenient, if not 
roomy, quarters, while the married 
men have four room houses. The 
hotels have been greatly improved 
since the United States took up the 
work, which the French abandoned, 
and the beautiful and costly elub- 
houses, built by the Y. M. C. A. and 
the Federation of Woman’s clubs 
along the canal route from Colon to 
Balboa, the newly-built city at the 
western entrance to the ‘‘Big 
Ditch,’’ have done much to uphold 
the moral standards in the country. 
The government has done every- 
thing possible to make home-life 
easy and desirable for this same 
purpose, so that Panama, unlike 
most tropical countries, will retain 
the high standards and ideals of the 
United States. 
The work has been earried out 
much as the French planned it ex- 
cept that locks have been made in- 
stead of having the canal construct- 
ed on sea level. The Gatun locks 
at the eastern entrance and the 
Pedro Miguel and Melle Flores 
locks at the Pacifie entrance are 
among the largest in the world. 
Safety for ships passing through 
the canal is guaranteed by the series 
of locks and gates, and by the width 
of the canal, which will permit the 
largest boats afloat to pass each 
other. The machinery, which has 
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